Of Magic’s deck archetypes, control might be the most infamous. Who hasn’t played the long game against the deck that seems to have every answer to sweep your board state aside while drawing more cards than you can dream of?
Read moreSurveil has been in Magic since 2018, and I’ve always thought it weird that a term for spycraft is used to talk about manipulating your own deck. But that’s how it goes sometimes.
Read moreA one-shot card in MTG can take an opponent from any reasonable amount of life to dead with just one action (or sometimes the same action multiple times). This can be anything from attacking with an arbitrarily large creature to some sort of...
Read moreSometimes having the best of both worlds can be good or bad. But not when you have shapeshifter commanders! With so many creature types and many benefits from copying the creature that you or your opponents already have, you never know what...
Read morePhyrexia: All Will Be One was an even more distorted take on Scars of Mirrodin/New Phyrexia. Phyrexians took the plane of Mirrodin after all. Oil counters were one of the key features of this set.
Read moreGreen has lots to offer, with competitive but also fun commanders to choose from. Combine this with the color’s diverse range of cards, and you have a lot of options when trying to build a mono-green deck.
Read moreInsects are one of the most diverse groups of creatures in our real world, but how are they represented in Magic?
Read moreBlack is one of the MTG colors with the least mono-colored sagas (it nearly ties with blue for the last spot, and a long way from white), but it has a couple of the strongest sagas.
Read moreColorless decks have the most restricted access to Magic’s card pool, but they still have access to excellent enters-the-battlefield cards, which are a tried-and-true way to gain an advantage and open up combo and synergy potential for a deck.
Read morePirate commanders are legendary creatures that are also pirates, or other eligible commanders that mention pirates in their rules text or otherwise synergize with pirates. Outlaws of Thunder Junction introduced the typal coupling of rogues...
Read moreScry is a keyword mechanic in MTG that has been around for almost 20 years. Only recently, and only with little more than a dozen cards, there are finally specific payoffs to scrying aside from the general card selection inherent in the...
Read moreToday I’ll be discussing what exactly counts as a blue land, what the best blue lands are, and the best way to make use of them.
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